| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1996-01-07)7 January 1996 (age 30) | ||
| Place of birth | Yerevan, Armenia | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | FC Gandzasar | ||
| Number | 96 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2002–2013 | Banants | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014–2016 | Banants | 35 | (4) |
| 2016 | →Pyunik (loan) | 17 | (1) |
| 2017–2018 | Pyunik | 33 | (9) |
| 2019–2020 | Ararat-Armenia | 27 | (9) |
| 2020–2021 | Tobol | 12 | (1) |
| 2021–2022 | Noah | 19 | (9) |
| 2022 | Shakhter Karagandy | 9 | (1) |
| 2022 | Akzhayik | 11 | (3) |
| 2023 | Maktaaral | 9 | (3) |
| 2023–2024 | Khimki | 3 | (0) |
| 2023–2024 | Khimki-M | 2 | (0) |
| 2024 | →Ararat-Armenia (loan) | 11 | (1) |
| 2024–2025 | Alashkert | 24 | (2) |
| 2025– | FC Gandzasar | 11 | (1) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2015–2018 | Armenia U-21 | 16 | (4) |
| 2019– | Armenia | 7 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 11 December 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 21 June 2023 | |||
Petros Avetisyan (Armenian:Պետրոս Ավետիսյան; born 7 January 1996) is an Armenian professionalfootballer who plays as amidfielder forFC Gandzasar, and theArmenia national team.
Born in Yerevan, Avetisyan started his career at Malatia football school that later was renamed asFC Banants.[1] After progressing through the club's youth system, he became top scorer of Banants-2 in Armenian First league[2] in 2014–15 season and moved to the first team of the club.
On 11 November 2014, he made his debut in Armenia Premier League in away match against Pyunik.[3] In two weeks he already was in starting line-up of Banants.[4]
In 2015–16 he was one of the key players of Banants. The club won theArmenian Cup.
On 29 July 2016, Avetisyan signed forPyunik on a six-month loan deal,[5] and played almost all the matches in Starting line-up of the club in the first half of 2016–17 season.
On 23 January 2017, he officially was transferred from Banants to Pyunik.[6]
At the beginning of 2018 he was linked to moving to Ukrainian clubsZorya Luhansk[7] andFC Oleksandriya.[8]
On 27 February 2019, Ararat-Armenia announced the signing of Petros Avetisyan.[9][10] Avetisyan made his Ararat-Armenia debut on 2 March 2019 in a 4–1 Premier League home win against Ararat Yerevan.[11] He entered the pitch in 55th minute and scored his first Ararat-Armenia goal in 90th minute. In the same season, Avetisyan won to the title of Armenian Premier League with Ararat-Armenia and became champion of Armenia for the first time.[12]
On 12 January 2020, Ararat-Armenia announced that Avetisyan had moved toFC Tobol in theKazakhstan Premier League,[13] with Tobol confirming the signing on 14 January 2020.[14] He made his debut for FC Tobol on 14 March 2020 in Kazakhstan Premier League Matchday 2 fixture against Zhetysu, as a 90th-minute substitute forSerikzhan Muzhikov. He became Kazakhstan vice-champion with Tobol.[15] On 19 January 2021, Tobol confirmed that Avetisyan had left the club.[16]
On 27 February 2021, Avetisyan returned to theArmenian Premier League, signing forFC Noah.[17] He helped his club with 5 goals to reach the second position in the league.
On 16 February 2022, Petros Avetisyan signed a contract withKazakhstan Premier League clubShakhter Karagandy.[18] On 18 July 2022, Shakhter Karagandy announced the departure of Avetisyan by mutual agreement.[19]
On 20 August 2022, Petros Avetisyan signed a contract withKazakhstan Premier League clubFC Akzhayik. On the same day he scored his first goal for Akzhayik making it 2–0 in the game with Caspiy.[20]
On 5 March 2023, Petros Avetisyan signed a contract withKazakhstan Premier League clubFC Maktaaral.[21] He left the club in June 2023.[22]
On 22 July 2023, he moved to theRussian First League clubKhimki.[23]
On 15 January 2024,Ararat-Armenia announced the return of Avetisyan on loan fromKhimki until the end of the season.[24]
On 13 September 2024,Alashkert announced the signing of Avetisyan.[25] On 24 June 2025, he left the club along with a group of other players.[26]
Avetisyan made his debut inArmenia national under-21 football team on 8 September 2015 in a home match against Romania.
On 3 November 2016 he was called up toArmenia national football team for the first time.[27]
On 13 June 2017 he scored his first goal forArmenia national under-21 football team as captain. It was against Gibraltar U21 in UEFA U21 Championship Qualifying Round of 2019 inEstádio Algarve, Portugal.[28]
He made his debut for thesenior squad on 26 March 2019 in aEuro 2020 qualifier against Finland, as a 74th-minute substitute forEdgar Babayan.[29]
| Club | Season | League | National cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Banants | 2014–15 | Armenian Premier League | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 14 | 1 | ||
| 2015–16 | 22 | 3 | 4 | 0 | – | – | 26 | 3 | ||||
| 2016–17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 2 | 0 | |||
| Total | 35 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 4 | ||
| Pyunik (loan) | 2016–17 | Armenian Premier League | 17 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 19 | 1 | |
| Pyunik | 2016–17 | Armenian Premier League | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 9 | 1 | |
| 2017–18 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | 19 | 9 | |||
| 2018–19 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | 17 | 2 | |||
| Total | 33 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 13 | ||
| Ararat-Armenia | 2018–19 | Armenian Premier League | 14 | 6 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 16 | 6 | ||
| 2017–18 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 8 | ||
| Total | 27 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 14 | ||
| Tobol | 2020 | Kazakhstan Premier League | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 12 | 1 | ||
| Noah | 2020–21 | Armenian Premier League | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | – | – | 13 | 7 | ||
| 2021–22 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 12 | 4 | |||
| Total | 19 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 11 | ||
| Shakhter Karagandy | 2022 | Kazakhstan Premier League | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 9 | 1 | ||
| Career total | 152 | 33 | 19 | 7 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 189 | 44 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armenia | 2019 | 5 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 7 | 0 | |
Banants
Ararat-Armenia